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62nd Annual STS (2002-2003)
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  The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY
Abbo, Leon Jacobo (17)
The Effect of Chaos on Weather and Forced Climate Change

  Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD
Abutaleb, Mohamed Osama (17)
Classical Simulations of the Dynamics of Capacitively Coupled Josephson Junction Qubits

  Manhasset High School, Manhasset, NY
Alagesan, Deepa (17)
Chemiluminescence Detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Fresh Produce

  Brewster High School, Brewster, NY
Alcott, Brett Eugene (17)
Liquid-state NMR Quantum Information Processing

  duPont Manual Magnet High School, Louisville, KY
Alexander, Vinita Marie (18)
Model Membrane Biophysics: An Atomic Force Microscopy Study of Synaptic Vesicle Fusion

  Edward R. Murrow High School, Brooklyn, NY
Alkayeva, Svetlana (19)
Molecular Evolution: New Approaches to the Problem of Selection in Dynamic Combinatorial Libraries of Carbohydrates

  Sewanhaka High School, Floral Park, NY
Alloo, Allireza Ahmed (17)
Testing for trans Interactions Between Extracellular Motor Axon Guidance Molecules

  Ossining High School, Ossining, NY
Arefin, Mirza Refai (17)
Determining Differentially Expressed Cell Surface Proteins in Metastatic and Non-metastatic Melanoma Cell Lines Using Phage Display Antibody Technology

  North Haven High School, North Haven, CT
Babcock, Joseph James (17)
Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Theory and Fractal Geometry as a Model for Periodic Spacing of Mars Gullies

  New Rochelle High School, New Rochelle, NY
Backer, Chelsea Buyon (17)
Increased Frequency of the High Producer Genotype TT (Codon 10) of TGF Beta 1 in Congenital Heart Block and TNF2 Allele in Families with Neonatal Lupus

  Cypress High School, Cypress, CA
Bae, Woong Hwan (17)
Regulation of Protease Expression in the Carnivorous Plant Nepenthes alata

  Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, Plainview, NY
Bai, Nina Yu (17)
Synthesis and Characterization of Well-ordered Thin Films of Decanethiolated Gold Nanoparticles

  Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD
Baron, Matthew (17)
Polarization-Mode Dispersion Measurements of Multi-mode Optical Fibers

  Great Neck South High School, Great Neck, NY
Bass, Jared Alexander (17)
Job Scheduling to Improve Running Time on a Set of Parallel Processors

  Fowler High School, Fowler, CA
Batth, Sukhjeet Singh (17)
Prediction of 4-3 Alpha-helix Packing with Profile Analysis

  Manhasset High School, Manhasset, NY
Bennett, John Patrick (17)
Optimizing a Static Chaotic Mixer for Microchannels: A Computational Fluid Dynamics Approach

  Smithtown High School, Smithtown, NY
Berntson, Alec (18)
Applications of Neural Networks in Protein Crystallography

  Edison Township High School, Edison, NJ
Bhate, Chinmoy (17)
An Innovative Green Chemistry Approach to Painkillers

  Newfield High School, Selden, NY
Bhatt, Ashish Rashmikant (17)
Apoptosis in NTera-2 Cells: The Caspase Pathway and Subsequent Death

  Poquoson High School, Poquoson, VA
Bhatt, Baiju Praful (17)
Test of Equivalence Principle Using Ultra-relativistic Particle Pairs

  Marianapolis College, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Blank, Leah (18)
Creation of a Transgenic Canola (Brassica napus) Vaccine Against the Intestinal Parasite Giardia lamblia

  Naperville North High School, Naperville, IL
Boddupalli, Dhruvatej (16)
Silicon Atomic Chains: First-principles Study of Atomic and Electronic Structure

  Kings Park High School, Kings Park, NY
Bower, Julie Anne (17)
An Event-related Potential Study of Facial Expressions of Emotion

  Jackson Preparatory School, Jackson, MS
Brihmadesam, Vijay Kailas (17)
Development by Design and Testing of a Miniature Wind Turbine to Harness Kinetic Energy from Air Flow around a Moving Automobile

  Syosset High School, Syosset, NY
Brown, David R. (17)
Effect of Variability of Current Conditions on Time of Equivalency Parameter in a Post-inflationary Universe with a Simple Quintessence Field

  Plano High School, Plano, TX
Buhrmester, Michael Duane (18)
Social Cognition and Jury Bias Toward Elderly Witnesses in the Courtroom

  Thomas Jefferson High School & Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA
Burakow, Alexandra Marie (18)
The Structure of the Nerve Net of Cnidarian Nematostella vectensis as a Means of Understanding Evolutionary Neurobiology

  The Roxbury Latin School, West Roxbury, MA
Byrnes, Steven J.F. (18)
Poset-Game Periodicity

  Oak Ridge High School, Conroe, TX
Campbell, Bryce K. (18)
On the Importance of Cylinder Flexibility in Vortex-induced Vibration Model Testing

  Clear Brook High School, Friendswood, TX
Cao, Yu (16)
An Anti-cancer Tree: Development of Novel Methodologies for Camptothecin Extraction, Semi-synthetic Production and Esterification

  Dunbar High School, Fort Worth, TX
Chakrabarti, Saikat (16)
Galactic Evolution in One Dimension

  Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD
Chang, Joshua TsuKang (17)
Quantum Computer Simulator: A Deterministic Model of Synthetic Quantum Gate

  Wichita High School East, Wichita, KS
Chao, Allen Blake (17)
Optimized Broadcast Incremental Algorithm: Construction of a Minimum Energy Broadcast Tree for Static ad hoc Wireless Network

  Fox Lane High School, Bedford, NY
Charalel, Resmi Ann (17)
A Potential Treatment for Prion Disease: The Effect of a Copper Chelator on the Resistance of a Scrapie Prion to Proteinase K Digestion

  Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Chechkin, Aleksander (17)
Internal Rotational Spectrum of the Tryptophan Molecules Using Laser Terahertz Pulse Spectroscopy

  Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Chen, Alice Zao (17)
Global Change in a Nutshell: A Diagnosis of New York City's Climate Variability

  Hunter College High School, New York, NY
Chen, Jason (17)
Tumor Antigens for Cancer Vaccine: The Search for Genes with Tissue-restricted mRNA Expression

  Troy High School, Fullerton, CA
Chen, Nancy (17)
Contribution of the Phosphodiester Backbone to the DNA Helix Structure

  The Wheatley School, Old Westbury, NY
Cheng, Ho Yin (17)
DNA Capillary Electrophoresis in Replaceable Interpenetrating Network of Polymer

  Half Hollow Hills High School East, Dix Hills, NY
Choi, Hyeyeon (18)
The Effect of Supercritical Fluids on Polymer Thin Films

  Miami Sunset High School, Miami, FL
Chow, Michael (18)
Identification of Active Odor Signature Chemicals in Forensic Specimens Using Canis familiaris as Biological Detectors

  Benjamin N. Cardozo High School, Oakland Garden, NY
Choy, Jennifer Tze-Henc (17)
Effect of ACTH on Chondrogenesis

  Saratoga High School, Saratoga, CA
Chu, Allan (18)
LZAC Lossless Data Compression: A Novel Approach to Minimum Redundancy Coding

  Lexington High School, Lexington, MA
Chung, Yvonne (17)
Progesterone-induced Apoptosis in Normal and Cancerous Ovarian Surface Epithelial Cells and the Roles of Bcl-xL and BAD

  Roslyn High School, Roslyn Heights, NY
Cohen, Gabriel Mason (17)
Can Prostate Cancer be Prevented by Diet? Cooperative Cytotoxic Effects of Two Anti-cancer Phytochemicals, Diindolylmethane and Genistein

  The University of Chicago Laboratory School, Chicago, IL
Constantinides, Michael George (17)
The Synthesis of 1,2-bis (di-tert-butylposphino) ethane Supported Nickel (I) Silyls and Their Corresponding Nickel (II) Silyl Cations

  Richland Northeast High School, Columbia, SC
Cram, William Park (17)
Dual-band Microstrip Patch Antenna for Wireless Applications

  Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Cross, Samuel Robert (18)
A Computational Approach to Knot Classification Using Voronoi Constructions

  Sachem High School, Lake Ronkonkoma, NY
D'Ambrosio, Michael (17)
Children, Parents and Genre in Interactive Media

  The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY
Dang, Ying Yi (17)
Microbial Synthesis of Polyhydroxy-butyrate Under Nitrogen Limitation

  Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, NY
Dawson-Haggerty, Stephen (17)
Diffraction: Experiment, Simulation and Application to Polymer Fibers

  River Hill High School, Clarksville, MD
DeMenthon, Eric Bernard (17)
SilhE-Putty: A Silhouette-based 3D Model Construction System

  Earl L. Vandermeulen High School, Port Jefferson, NY
Dickenson, Jessica Ashley (17)
Sizing Neutron Stars

  Wellington C. Mepham High School, Bellmore, NY
Dolinger, Barry Lee (17)
The Correlation Between Religiosity and Academic Success Among High School Seniors

  Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
Domnisoru, Cristina (17)
Analysis of Suboptimal Secondary Structures in Functional RNAs

  Harborfields High School, Greenlawn, NY
Dong, Huawei (17)
Effects of Taxol and Oryzalin on Cotton Fiber Qualities in Gossypium hirsutum, variety MD 51

  Provo High School, Provo, UT
Drury, Hollilyne (18)
Klaprothium: A New Material for Soft X-ray Reflectance

  Windsor Central High School, Windsor, NY
Egan, Andrew Robert (17)
Self versus Other Photograph and Abstract Symbol Discrimination in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodyte)

  Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Ellis, Alexander (17)
The Design and Performance of an Astigmatic Laser Mode Converter

  Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda, MD
Eshel, Neir (17)
Selection and Anticipation in a Reward-related Task: An fMRI Study

  Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD
Feng, Christina (17)
Impaired Gene Expression and Activity of Phosphatase 2A in Fibroblasts of Alzheimer's Disease

  Midwood High School at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Fischer, Rachel Ann (17)
A Pro-Carcinogenic Role of the 3C4-Ag in Pancreatic Cancer

  Hebrew Academy of Nassau County, Uniondale, NY
Fisher, Robert Neil (17)
Improving Plastic Recycling Using Modified Organoclays

  Paul D. Schreiber High School, Port Washington, NY
Flamm, Elizabeth Sarah (17)
Affect Cognition in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: General Performance and Response Bias on a Match-to-Target Measure

  Massapequa High School, Massapequa, NY
Flaxman, Adam O. (17)
Annual Modulation of Earthquakes in Yellowstone National Park and Their Relations to Atmospheric Pressure Variations and Snow Load

  South Side High School, Rockville Centre, NY
Fleischer, Hilary Caren (17)
Optical Analysis of a Flowing Soap Film

  Paul D. Schreiber High School, Port Washington, NY
Francis, Jeremy Bradford (17)
Sequential and Simultaneous Lineups Under the Cross-race Condition

  New Rochelle High School, New Rochelle, NY
Freidman, Jason Eric (17)
Toward New Methods of Symmetric Encryption: A Comparison of a Modified Linear Feedback Shift Register and an Irrational Number Based Algorithm to Generate a More Secure Data Encryption System

  Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA
Fried, Alexander (18)
Determining the k-Vector Within a Dielectric Joint

  Half Hollow Hills High School West, Dix Hills, NY
Friedman, Eric Glenn (17)
The Control of the Inverted Pendulum Through the Horizontal Acceleration of the Pivot Point

  Horace Mann School, Bronx, NY
Friedman, Jared Daniel (17)
Improved Statistical Test for Multiple-condition Microarray Data Integrating ANOVA with Clustering

  Roslyn High School, Roslyn Heights, NY
Friedman, Kimberly Beth (17)
Perpetuating Sexual Stereotypes: The Impact of Television Exposure on Students' Sexual Attitudesand Behavior

  Frederick High School, Frederick, MD
Gee, Jennifer Pei-Kay (17)
Identification of Genes Regulating Differentiation in Leukemic Cells Induced by Retinoic Acid: A Microarray Data Analysis

  John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School, Great Neck, NY
Geffen, Gregg Alan (17)
An Analysis of Individual Preference for Effort and Reward Currency Compatibility

  Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn, NY
Gekker, Anna (17)
The Effect of Psychosocial Factors on Recovery Time and Level of Health Improvement Among Patients Suffering from Physical and/or Mental Disability in a Subacute Rehabilitation Setting

  Harvard-Westlake School, North Hollywood, CA
Gelfand, Jenna Rebecca (18)
Dissociating Neural Mechanisms of Phonological Processing and Temporal Sequencing

  State College Area High School, State College, PA
Gerardin, Jaline Li (17)
Hopping Around on the Potential Energy Surface: The Dynamics of Supercooled States of Matter

  Pittsford Mendon High School, Pittsford, NY
Ghosh, Siddhartha (17)
Secondary Electrons from X-ray Photocathodes

  New Rochelle High School, New Rochelle, NY
Gingold, Julian A. (17)
Analyzing and Displaying Protein Motion: Variations in Interatomic Distancesand Crystallographic B-Factors

  Community High School, Ann Arbor, MI
Glass, Ben William (18)
A Design Concept of a Multi-chambered Radial In-Flow (MCRI) Bipropellant Rocket Engine

  Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Goldmints-Orlov, Arcady (18)
A Distributed Instant-messaging Search System

  White Plains High School, White Plains, NY
Gorczyca, Marta Elzbieta (17)
Caffeine Improves DNA Stainability with 4,6,-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) in Cells Treated withthe Antitumor Drug Doxorubicin

  George W. Hewlett High School, Hewlett, NY
Green, Sarah (17)
To Gossip or Not to Gossip: A Function of Social Intelligence in Teenage Girls

  Paul D. Schreiber High School, Port Washington, NY
Gross, Jessica Ruth (17)
The Use of Microarray Technology and RT-PCR to Determine the Effects of Eschinacea on Gene Expression in Human Lymphocytes

  Jericho High School, Jericho, NY
Gupta, Nikhil (17)
The Expression of Perforin and Granzyme A in Peripheral Blood CD 3+8-, CD 3+8+, and CD 3-8+ Cell in Healthy Newborns, Children, Adults and in Children Infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

  Comsewogue High School, Port Jefferson Station, NY
Gupta, Vikas (17)
The Synthesis of Second Generation Taxoids as Potential Treatments for Malaria, Leishmaniasis,and Trypanosomiasis

  Staten Island Technical High School, Staten Island, NY
Gutierrez, Hialy Riviera (17)
Sequential Layer-by-Layer Deposition of Oppositely Charged Polyelectrolytes onto Colloidal Micro- and Nanoparticles as a New Approach in the Microencapsulation of Biologically Active Substances

  Lindbergh High School, St Louis, MO
Hackmann, Timothy John (18)
Modeling a Circular Membrane with a Central Point Node Added

  Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA
Herbst, Daniel (17)
Adapting Ground-penetrating Radar for Analysis of Concrete Columns

  Yeshivah of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School, Brooklyn, NY
Hersh, David Seth (17)
Determining the Optimum Conditions for the Biosynthesis of Microbial Cellulose and Its Analogues

  Townsend Harris High School, Flushing, NY
Hetherington, Jessica A. (17)
Development of a Non-viral Genetic Assay for HIV-1 Integrase in vivo

  Texas Academy of Mathematics & Science, Denton, TX
Hinze, Jon Adam (17)
Computer Simulations of Scratch Resistance and Recovery in the One-and-Two Phase Materials

  Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD
Hoffman, Jeremy Davidson (17)
Automatically Inferring Ontologies from Databases

  Padua Franciscan High School, Parma, OH
Horodyskyj, Ulyana Nadia (16)
Sailing Towards Mars: Orbital Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms

  Texas Academy of Mathematics & Science, Denton, TX
Howe, Juliet (17)
Determination of Wear of Scratch Recovery

  West Shore High School, Melbourne, FL
Hsu, Ronald (17)
Effective Question Answering through Genetic Adaptation of Passage Retrieval Matching Function

  Newtown High School, Queens, NY
Hu, Qichao (17)
Cycling Dynamics: Predicting Cosmic Denouement through Baryonic and Non-Baryonic Dark Matter Searches and Redshift Observation

  High Technology High School, Lincroft, NJ
Hua, Serenus Shuo-ren (17)
Effect of Musical Training on the Accuracy of Human Perception of Acoustic Pitches

  Bellaire High School, Bellaire, TX
Huang, Mengfei (17)
Mutant Flies and Brain Genes: Mapping of a Novel Gene in Drosophila melanogaster

  Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Hui, John (17)
DNA Architecture of Campylobacter fetus sap Island

  Commack High School, Commack, NY
Imber, Brandon Stuart (17)
The "Blackberry" Cluster: Thermodynamic Equilibrium and Potential Medical Applications of Giant Nanoscale Inorganic Molecules in Solution

  Maui High School, Kahului, HI
Jachowski, Matthew Douglas Apau (17)
On Initial Orbit Determination Accuracy

  Laurel-Concord High School, Laurel, NE
Jacobsen, Michael Thomas (17)
The Allium Genus as a Biological Control

  San Francisco University High School, San Francisco, CA
Jan, Max (18)
Asymmetric Cell Fate Decisions in Caenorhabditis elegans Olfactory Neurons

  Sleepy Hollow High School, Sleepy Hollow, NY
Johnson, Elizabeth Tinsley (17)
The Agonistic and Allogrooming Behavior of Adult Male Gelada Baboons

  Townsend Harris High School, Flushing, NY
Kalasapudi, Bharati Devi (17)
Regulation of the Expression and Degradation of I(kappa)B(alpha) in Human Neutrophils

  Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, Plainview, NY
Kallem, Stacey Michelle (17)
Self-esteem and Schematic Processing as Precursors of Depression in Children

  Townsend Harris High School, Flushing, NY
Kamler, Jonathan Jacques (17)
A Siphoned Flowing Soap Film as a Model for Density-Stratified Natural Fluid Systems

  Half Hollow Hills High School East, Dix Hills, NY
Kaplan, Lauren Alexis (17)
The Effects of a Group I Intron Ribozyme on a Pancreatic Cancer Cell Line

  Academy for Engineering & Design Technology, Hackensack, NJ
Kaplan, Manda Simcha (17)
Schizophrenics Show More Attention Deficiencies in Auditory than in Visual Modality

  Massapequa High School, Massapequa, NY
Kaplan, Todd C. (17)
Tsunami Inundation as a Function of Shoreward Topographic Profile

  South Side High School, Rockville Centre, NY
Kardon, Alex (17)
Do Pay Raises Affect Measured Performance and Inferred Motivation in Professional Baseball Players?

  Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD
Karlik, Evan Alex (18)
Development of a Surface Plasmon Resonance Bioassay: Immobilization of Membranes Containing the HIV-1 Coreceptor CCR5 to an Engineered Alkanethiol Monolayer

  Shaker Heights High School, Shaker Heights, OH
Karnik, Priyanka S. (17)
Prevalence of "Slime Gene" Orthologs in a Natural, Multispecies Biofilm

  The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY
Kashlev, Dmitry (19)
Data Mining Network Traffic with Neural Networks

  Horace Mann School, Bronx, NY
Katz, David Lipa (17)
Structural Domain Identification in Proteins: A Computational Approach

  Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, Plainview, NY
Kelly, Tara Leigh (17)
Genetic Variation in a Sexually Selected Male Trait in Drosophila

  Mills E. Godwin High School, Richmond, VA
Kessler, Marissa Rachel (17)
Identification of Multiple UDP-Glucuronosyltransferases Responsible for the Detoxification of Acetaminophen

  Syosset High School, Syosset, NY
Ketover, Daniel Jacob (17)
The Majorana Description of Spin Tunneling

  The Fieldston School, Bronx, NY
Kief, Jonathan (17)
Detection of a Novel Stop Codon Mutation Causing Acute Intermittent Porphyria in a Family of Colombian Descent

  Syosset High School, Syosset, NY
Kim, Leslie Rhan (17)
Genetic Pathways Involved in Arabidopsis thaliana Shoot Meristem and Leaf Development

  Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD
Kim, Sei-Wook (17)
Robotically Controlled Image Acquisition Platform for Combinatorial Research in Polymeric Thin Films

  Leigh High School, San Jose, CA
Kluesing, Daniel Lennard (17)
Non-deterministic Polynomial Time Complete Calculations Using Synthetic Bubble Emulation

  Long Beach High School, Lido Beach, NY
Komisarow, Jordan Michael (17)
The Identification of Transposon Regulator Genes in the Flowering Plant Arabidopsis thaliana

  Half Hollow Hills High School West, Dix Hills, NY
Kondabolu, Sirish Kumar (17)
Identification of Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks: Implications in Safe Epidural Anesthesia

  George W. Hewlett High School, Hewlett, NY
Kong, Fan (17)
Psychometric Properties of a Scale Measuring World Views

  Nashua High School, Nashua, NH
Koo, Kevin (17)
Evidence of a New Missense Mutation in Somatic Mitochondrial DNA of Aging Skin Fibroblasts

  Eastchester High School, Eastchester, NY
Kosack, Amanda Shari (17)
Anatomic Variation in Holoprosencephaly: Clues to Heterogeneous Embryonic Mechanisms

  C. Leon King High School, Tampa, FL
Kotha, Anupama (17)
A Novel Stat3 Inhibitor: Resveratrol, a Phytoalexin in Grapes

  Torrey Pines High School, San Diego, CA
Krishnan, Naveen M. (17)
Pre-attentive Processing of Illusory Contours During Crowding

  Byram Hills High School, Armonk, NY
Kroll, Matthew Jay (17)
Size as a Factor in the Development of the Deer Tick, Ixodes scapularis

  Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Kuo, Kevin Chester (17)
An Ultra-high Speed Method for the Multiple Comparison of Three-dimensional Protein Structures: A Sorted Sequence Embedded Block Approach

  Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Lai, Kevin (17)
Proline-rich Tyrosine Kinase-2 Fails to Localize to the Immunological Synapse in Non-Lytic CD8+ Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes

  Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD
Lai, Wei-Liang William (17)
Predictability of High-dissipation Auroral Activity

  Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Laitman, Andrew Marc (17)
On the Security of a Block Cipher Utilizing the Discrete Fourier Transform

  Kings Park High School, Kings Park, NY
Lanigan, Kerry (17)
The Design and Synthesis of Water-soluble Taxoids for Tumor-activated Prodrugs in Cancer Chemotherapy

  Willow Glen High School, San Jose, CA
Larson, Richard William (17)
Center of Pulse Energy Receiver for Ultra Wideband Radio

  Teays Valley High School, Ashville, OH
Larue, Bethany Allison (18)
Molecular and Biochemical Examination of Bacteria Implicated in the Aerobic Degradation of Oil

  St. Francis Preparatory School, Fresh Meadows, NY
Laszkowska, Monika (17)
A New Regulatory Pathway for Tumor Suppressor p53 Activity in Cancer Cells

  The Wheatley School, Old Westbury, NY
Laulicht, Freda Robyn (18)
A Novel Method of Phytoremediation for Monitoring Heavy Metals in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii via Synthetic Chameleon-Metallothionein II Metal Binding Protein

  John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School, Great Neck, NY
Lavon, Rachel (17)
Testing the Mechanical and Adhesive Properties of Hyaluronic Acid for Its Use on Vascular Stents

  Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, NY
Law, Karen (17)
The Effect of Age on Emotional Brain Reactivity

  Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD
Lee, Andrew Wuham (17)
Reducing Size in Integrated Optical Circuitry Using Slotted MMI Regions

  River Hill High School, Clarksville, MD
Lee, Jennifer Eun-Hee (17)
The Role of Smad7 in Skin Carcinogenesis

  Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Lee, John (17)
Analysis and Volume Visualization of 3D Contrast-enhanced Magnetic Resonance Mammograms

  Jericho Senior High School, Jericho, NY
Lee, Tamara (17)
Mechanistic Studies of the Water-soluble Tetrazolium Salts MTS

  Dr. Michael M. Krop High School, Miami, FL
Lemus, Bryan A. (17)
A Transgenic Screening Approach to the Development of Arabidopsis Mutants Deficient in the Synthesis of Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase Kinase

  The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY
Leung, Min Wah (16)
A Novel Approach to Measuring Curvature of the Femur

  Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Levin, Alex (17)
A Secure and Efficient Shuffle-based Identification and Signature Scheme

  Paul D. Schreiber High School, Port Washington, NY
Levin, Jonathan (18)
Object-Based Attention in Pigeons

  Paul D. Schreiber High School, Port Washington, NY
Levin, Lindsay Rebecca (17)
The Functional Body vs. the Aesthetic Body: A Health Behavior Analysis

  Paul D. Schreiber High School, Port Washington, NY
Levine, Jarryd (17)
Identifying Bacterial Genes via Neural Networks

  Ramaz School, New York, NY
Levine, Joshua Adam (17)
Polymer-Cell Interactions: Analysis of Polymer Elastomer Feedback and Cardiac Resynchronization on Micro- and Nanofabricated Polymers in vitro

  Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Lewis, Joel Brewster (18)
Analysis of a Vector Game

  Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, OR
Li, Tianhui (17)
Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement Fusion: Three-year Study

  Alhambra High School, Alhambra, CA
Liang, Wei (17)
Amyloid Peptide Mediation of Monocyte Migration and Induction of Inflammatory Genes in Alzheimer's Disease

  Belmont High School, Belmont, MA
Liau, Brian Bor-Jen (17)
Control of Red Blood Cell Production by Iron

  Half Hollow Hills High School East, Dix Hills, NY
Lichtman, Lauren Jessica (17)
Zeckendorf Representations of Products of Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers

  Blind Brook High School, Rye Brook, NY
Licitra, Jeffrey Lawrence (17)
Hemlock Decline Affects the Inoculum Potential of Red Oak (Quercus rubra) Seedlings to Below-ground Ectomycorrhizal Communities

  Woodbridge High School, Irvine, CA
Liljestrom, Ryan James (17)
Homomorphic Relationship Between Numerical Fulcrums and Primes of the Form k2+1

  Great Neck South High School, Great Neck, NY
Lin, James (17)
Detection of Imminent Structure Collapse Caused by Fire Using Dynamic Measurements

  John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School, Great Neck, NY
Ling, Jennifer Shui-Ming (17)
The Detection of Surface Antigen Mutants in the "A" Determinant Region of Children that Failed Neonatal Hepatitis B Prophylaxis and the Impact on Long Term Outcome

  Lexington High School, Lexington, MA
Lipson, Mark Israel (17)
A New Method for the Systematic Calculation of the Electron Affinities of the Elements

  The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY
Liu, Debra Yvonne (17)
Analysis of B3 and B4 DNA Fragments of the Glial Cells Missing Regulatory Region in Drosophila

  Mira Loma High School, Sacramento, CA
Liu, Justin (17)
Chemokine Receptors and Chemokine Receptor-like Proteins: Primary Candidates for Tyrosine Sulfation

  Locust Valley High School, Locust Valley, NY
Louie, Elizabeth Angela (17)
Nucleotide Frequency Variation Across Human Genes

  Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Luan, Betty Manling (17)
A Box-Model Approach on the Buoyancy Effects of Self-induced Convection on Clouds

  Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA
Lubsen, Julia Rose (17)
The Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen on Nrf2-regulated Gene Expression in Neuronal Cells

  Pikesville High, Baltimore, MD
Lukyanenko, Anton Valerievich (18)
3D Stochastic Model of Ca2+ Cycling Within a Heart Cell

  Half Hollow Hills High School West, Dix Hills, NY
Mackey, Lester Wayne (17)
A Combinatorial Proof of Seymour's Conjecture for Regular Oriented Graphs with Almost Regular Outsets O'a and O"a

  Paul D. Schreiber High School, Port Washington, NY
Malekan, Melody Rebecca (17)
Children's Affect from Infancy to Early Toddlerhood: Developmental Change, Continuity and Relations with Parental Reports

  Syosset High School, Syosset, NY
Malin, Adam Mikah (17)
Ethos, Pathos, and Politics: Ramifications of a National Crisis

  Walter Tresper Clarke High School, Westbury, NY
Manivannan, Sandhya (17)
Time to Learn? The Effects of One Type of Block Scheduling on Student Achievement

  Cherry Creek High School, Englewood, CO
Marlow, Jeff James (18)
The Role of Oxygen in Cobalt-doped Titanium Oxide Thin Films

  Alhambra High School, Alhambra, CA
Marr, Henry Louis (17)
Teratogens Affecting Cranial Neural Crest Migration in the Developing Chick Embryo

  Midwood High School at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Marshack, Joshua Leon (17)
Effects of Rearing and Body Mass Index on the Feeding Behavior of Bonnet Macaques

  Herricks High School, New Hyde Park, NY
Marshak, Evan Jayson (17)
Optically-stimulated Luminescence in Al2O3:C

  Suffern High School, Suffern, NY
Matz, Joshua Adam (17)
Catalase and Vitamin E Prevention of X-ray Induced Mutations of the gpt Gene in Transgenic G12 Cells

  Little Rock Central High School, Little Rock, AR
Mazumder, Mark Mohan (17)
Cardiovascular Stents with Shape Memory Alloys: Designing a New Stent Coating to Prevent Restenosis

  Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, NY
McConnell, James Henry (17)
The Fractal Dimension of Impact Craters as Indicator of Subsurface Moisture

  North Shore High School, Glen Head, NY
McNeur, Joshua Clarke (17)
The Effects of Culture Upon Musical Expectations

  Carmel High School, Carmel, NY
Mezzone, Christina (17)
Effect of Vibration on Oxygen Exchange in an Artificial Lung

  Greenwich High School, Greenwich, CT
Mittal, Alexander Chow (17)
Nanoconstruction with Self-assembling DNA-PNA Complexes

  Syosset High School, Syosset, NY
Miu, Kathy Kar-Yee (17)
The Mobile Assistant for the Visually Impaired

  Niceville High School, Niceville, FL
Mohammed, Ibraheem Maqsood (17)
Prevention of Biofilm Formation on Intravascular and Urinary Catheters: Development of Novel and Cost-effective Antibacterial Coatings

  The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY
Montan, Omar Tomas (17)
New Discovery Showing Variations in Relative Levels of IP3R and RyR in the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum of Non-cardiac Tissues During Cardiomyopathy

  White Plains High School, White Plains, NY
Morello, Melissa Kathryn (17)
The Effect of Two Genetic Risk Factors on the Neuropathology of Alzheimer's Disease

  St. Francis Preparatory School, Fresh Meadows, NY
Morgan, Christina Joy (17)
Incidence of Crohn's Disease and Dairy Consumption

  Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Narendra, Varun Kumar (17)
Mathematical Model of Enzyme Replacement Therapy in Type 1 Gaucher Disease

  Troy High School, Fullerton, CA
Noguchi, Brian N. (17)
Design and Analysis of 3-dimensional Nanocomputers

  Lyme-Old Lyme High School, Old Lyme, CT
Nyberg, Michael Herbert (17)
The Quantification of the Physical Properties Impacting the Effective Implementation of Acoustic Larvicide Systems

  Ramapo High School, Spring Valley, NY
Palchaudhuri, Sonali (17)
Induction of the Unfolded Protein Response by Infection of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus

  Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, Plainview, NY
Parameswaran, Janaki (17)
Initiation of Vascular Tissue in the Primordia of Dioscorea alata and Dioscorea nipponica

  Dunbar High School, Fort Worth, TX
Patel, Amit Shravan (17)
Properties of Globular Star Cluster Trajectories in Ring Galaxies

  Astronaut High School, Titusville, FL
Patel, Anant Ramesh (18)
Neuronal Expression of CD22

  John Glenn High School, East Northport, NY
Patel, Neil Pravin (17)
Photon Orbits Around a Black Hole

  Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School, Rockville, MD
Pattabiraman, Kartik (17)
The Expression and Role of Cholecystokinin-8 on the Migration of Gonadotrophin Releasing Hormone Neurons

  Troy High School, Fullerton, CA
Pawlowski, Peter Michal (17)
Structure and Stability of Sulfur Trioxide-Ammonia Clusters with Water: Implications on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols

  Byram Hills High School, Armonk, NY
Perretta, Rosanna Christina (17)
Association Between Dopamine Receptor D5 and Cervical Dystonia

  Agoura High School, Agoura Hills, CA
Petre, Csaba (17)
One and Two-Dimensional Finite Element Analysis of Heat Transfer and Applications to Ferrofluid

  Jericho Senior High School, Jericho, NY
Pham, Anh Tuan (17)
The Effect of Epsilon D173A Mutation on Antagonism of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors by Pancuronium and Cistracurium

  Evanston Township High School, Evanston, IL
Pierrehumbert, Anna McLain (16)
A Simulation of Gravitational Lensing Using Classical Optics

  Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn, NY
Pinchoff, Jessie Zucker (16)
The Effect of Participation in Dual Immersion Education Programs on Performance on the Statewide English Language Assessment Exam

  Lexington High School, Lexington, MA
Platt, Jesse (17)
Cladistics: Using the Genetics of Plasmodium Strains to Find Its Evolutionary History

  Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD
Preygel, Anatoly (17)
Computation of Quandle Cocycle Knot Invariants

  Fox Chapel Area High School, Pittsburgh, PA
Puskarich, Paul G. (18)
On Partitions of Test Cover Problems

  Newton South High School, Newton Centre, MA
Rabin, Gregory Shimon (17)
The Application of Computer Science to the Study of the K-ATP Channel's Role in Cardioprotection

  Ossining High School, Ossining, NY
Rajdev, Priya Ashoke (16)
Identification of Absolute Pitch Possessors Without the Bias of Musical Training: Development of a Screening Procedure that Discerns Between Tone Labeling and Internalization

  Greenwich High School, Greenwich, CT
Ramchandani, Joia (17)
Efficacy of Controlled Drug Delivery by Polymer Biodegradable Devices in Varying pH Conditions

  The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY
Ramesh, Jay (17)
Homology Modeling of HIV-1 Coreceptor CCR5 Based on the Crystal Structure of Bovine Rhodopsin

  John P. Stevens High School, Edison, NJ
Rao, Aparna (17)
Soft Tissue Testing: Effects of an Alkaline Process for Viral and Microbial Reduction on the Biomechanical Properties of Anterior Tibialis Tendons

  Edgemont High School, Scarsdale, NY
Rathi, Siddarth (17)
Floating Spherical Gaussian Calculations via a Genetic Algorithm: Application to Lithium Hydride and Water

  Saginaw Arts & Sciences Academy, Saginaw, MI
Raval, Kunil Kaushik (17)
Utilizing Room Temperature Ionic Liquids as the Electrolyte in an Electrochemical Cell

  Westridge School, Pasadena, CA
Rengarajan, Michelle (17)
Induction of Drosophila melanogaster Immune Response by the Parasitic Nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora and Its Bacterial Symbiont, Photorhabdus luminescens

  Midwood High School at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Rood, Sacha Volosov (17)
Characterization of Cation Transport Properties of Bacillus anthracis GerX and the Homologous GerB of Bacillus subtilis

  Governor's School for Science & Mathematics, Hartsville, SC
Rosenberg, Rachel Lauren (17)
Ion Extraction and Focusing Using the High Performance Antiproton Trap

  Irondequoit High School, Rochester, NY
Rounds, Phoebe Robeson (17)
Multiple-tripler Broad-bandwidth Frequency Conversion for Laser Fusion

  Uniondale High School, Uniondale, NY
Ruano, Diana C. (17)
Greener Than Green: A Novel Approach to the Use of Natural Products as Plant Growth Regulators in the Family Poaceae, Subfamily Pooideae

  Canterbury School, Fort Myers, FL
Rubin, Jamie Elyce (16)
Characterization of the Secreted Aspartic Proteinases of Candida albicans Using a Novel Combinatorial Technique

  Texas Academy of Mathematics & Science, Denton, TX
Runyan, Andrea (17)
Dental Disease: The Root of All Evil? Skeletal Analysis of the Relationship Between Periodontal and Systemic Disease

  Manhasset High School, Manhasset, NY
Ryu, NaKyung (17)
The Effect of Korean Religious Institutions on Korean Assimilation in America

  John Jay High School, Katonah, NY
Sachs, Daniel Jacob (17)
Simvastatin Activation of Ryanodine Receptor Mediated Calcium Channels May Promote Myolysis

  North Shore High School, Glen Head, NY
Sadowski, John Paul (18)
Self-assembling Nanostructures Using Conductive DNA: A New Approach to Post-silicon Computer Processor Technology

  Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn, NY
Santoro, Linda Marie (16)
The Influence of Adult Children's Perceptions of Their Parents' Sex Role Views on Their Own Sex Role Views

  Massapequa High School, Massapequa, NY
Schlitt, Lisa Allyson (17)
Isolation and Homeostatic Analysis of Salt Tolerant Mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana

  Robbinsdale Cooper High School, New Hope, MN
Schmidgall, Emma Rose (17)
Inferring Surface Lattice Structure from Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Measurements of the High-temperature Superconductor Bi2Sr2Ca2CuO8+GAMMA

  Great Neck South High School, Great Neck, NY
Schultz, Kenneth David (17)
Star Searching in the Orion OB1a Association: Photometric Analysis, Identification, and Determination of Characteristics of Low-mass Pre-Main Sequence Stars

  Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Schwartz, Jonathan Ross (17)
Design and Construction of an Infrared Radiator Which Couples Heat to Outer Space

  Lawrence High School, Cedarhurst, NY
Schwartz, Jordan (17)
Evaluating Two Models of the Relationship Between School-Based Community Service Involvement and Political Viewpoint Among Adolescents

  Hathaway Brown School, Shaker Heights, OH
Sedransk, Kyra L. (17)
Biomechanics of the Mitral Valve and an Improved Replacement Valve Design

  George W. Hewlett High School, Hewlett, NY
Seidman, Carly Jane (17)
Determinants of Resiliency Among the Sons and Daughters of Breast Cancer Patients

  Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, Plainview, NY
Setton, Tedhar Erica (17)
Isolating the Effect of Polymer Mechanical Properties on Cardiac Fibroblasts Morphology, Proliferation and Growth

  Half Hollow Hills High School East, Dix Hills, NY
Shaikh, Farheen (17)
The Effects of Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy on the Sleep Architecture of Children with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome

  Lawrence High School, Cedarhurst, NY
Shaikh, Nigar Aftab (16)
Media Exposure as a Factor Influencing Body Image Among Middle School Females

  Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Shaw, Michael (17)
Structure Functions as a Diagnostic of the Turbulent Interstellar Gas

  Francis Lewis High School, Fresh Meadows, NY
Shen, Alice ShihYuan (18)
Synthesis of Two New Alpha-Lactams

  Edward R. Murrow High School, Brooklyn, NY
Shenderov, Kevin (15)
Identification of Cancer Testes Antigens Through Microarray Analysis Using a Bioinformatics Approach

  Manhasset High School, Manhasset, NY
Shieh, Lawrence (17)
A Model Method for the Rapid Identification of Potential Biological Warfare Agents

  Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Silla, Samba (17)
Complexity in the Periphery

  Evanston Township High School, Evanston, IL
Silverstein, Daniel Joseph (17)
Properties of the Hydraulic Jump on an Incline

  The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY
Sin, Emmanuel Joseph (17)
Efficacy in N-telopeptide Determination Techniques of Measuring Bone Resorption in Astronauts During Space Flight

  The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY
Singh, Mita (16)
Persistent Photoconductivity in ZnBeSe: CI As a Function of Beryllium Concentration

  Byram Hills High School, Armonk, NY
Singh, Riti Priya (17)
The Effect of Educational Setting and Cochlear Implantation on the Social Maturity of Deaf Children

  Los Alamos High School, Los Alamos, NM
Sinha, Naveen Neil (17)
Bubble-based Resonance-Doppler Technique of Liquid Characterization

  Owego Free Academy, Owego, NY
Skok, John Roma (17)
The Correlation of Martian Surface Erosion Rates and the Locations Elevation Based on the Analysis of Crater Size Densities

  School Without Walls, Washington, DC
Snell, Sabrina Curie (17)
An Assessment of Linear and Accelerated Motion in Double Stars

  Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, New York, NY
Soghoian, Damien Zadour (17)
Differential Phosphorylation of IP3R1 and IP3R3 in Breast Cancer

  Arkansas School for Mathematics & Sciences, Hot Springs, AR
Spann, Andrew Paul (18)
Photochemical and Alkaline Decomposition of Pigment Yellow 74, the Primary Chemical Ingredient in Yellow Tattoos

  Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, NY
Spector, Limor Shoshana (17)
A Novel DNA Delivery Vehicle: Smart Biodegradable Electrospun Membranes

  Morgan Park Academy, Chicago, IL
Srinivasan, Vidhya Devi (17)
On the Search for the Glycosyltransferase Involved in Alzheimer's Disease Using Bioinformatics

  Robert Louis Stevenson School, Pebble Beach, CA
Steinberg, Jason William (17)
Mediation of Allorecognition with Signaling Transduction Molecules in Botryllus schlosseri

  Winston Churchill High School, Livonia, MI
Street, Ethan James (17)
Continued Fractions of Quadratic Laurent Series

  George W. Hewlett High School, Hewlett, NY
Strohmenger, Richard Evan (17)
Emma Lazarus Revisited: Locus of Success Among Immigrants and Their Teenage Children

  Midwood High School at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Stuckhardt, Leigh Ayla (17)
A Novel Adhesion Protein Receptor Operating in Platelet Plaque Formation and Cell-Cell Aggregation in Thrombosis: Characterization of Specific Regulatory Domains

  William G. Enloe High School, Raleigh, NC
Su, Edward Joseph (18)
Electron-Phonon Interactions in Carbon Nanotubes

  Ben Davis High School, Indianapolis, IN
Sun, Irene Yuan (16)
Difference of Expression and Activity of Matrix Metalloproteinases in Rheumatoid and Normal Synovial Cells Under Impulsive Shock

  Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD
Sverdlov, Alexander (17)
Location of Orthologs by Cluster Analysis (LOCA) Procedure: A New Tool to Classify Evolutionary Relationships of Proteins

  Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, NY
Szczupak, Wolodymyr (17)
Trapping Force Studies in a Low-power Optical Tweezers Device

  Monroe Woodbury High School, Central Valley, NY
Szprengiel, Julia (17)
Positive Cloud-to-Ground Lightning as a Potential Indicator of Severe Weather

  Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, NY
Tang, Rui (17)
The Relationship Between the Velocity of Fluid Flow and the Amplitude of the Sound Generated and the Development of a Novel Acoustic Non-invasive Flow Meter

  Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, NY
Taylor, Amit Moshe (17)
Modulation of Apoptotic Regulatory Gene Expression as a Function of the Apoptotic Cascade of the Pathogenesis of Huntington's Disease

  Oklahoma School of Science & Mathematics, Oklahoma City, OK
te Velde, Vera Louise (16)
Effects of Diffuse X-ray Radiation in the Galactic Center on Detection of X-ray Binaries by the Chandra X-ray Observatory

  Clinton High School, Clinton, NY
Tewksbury, Carolyn Morgan (17)
Collapse of the Pasom-mana Tessera Region, Venus: Implications for the Evolutionof Crustal Plateaus

  McNair Academic High School, Jersey City, NJ
Thanawala, Prachi Umanq (17)
The Extraction, Isolation, and Purification of Natural Product Compounds Using Microwave Induced Organic Reaction Enhancement Techniques

  Nanuet High School, Nanuet, NY
Thomas, Sonya (18)
The Protective Effect of the APOE-e2 Allele on the Familial Aggregation of Alzheimer's Disease

  Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Till, Jacob Edward (17)
Survey of Molecular Techniques for the Study of Rare Genetic Disorders: Knock-in Vector Construction and Gene Discovery

  Paul D. Schreiber High School, Port Washington, NY
Tingir, Nicole Arpi (17)
Cryptic Genetic Changes of c-MYC, BCL-6 and Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Genein Lymphoma Development

  Conway High School, Conway, AR
Toll, Alexandria Jacqueline (17)
A Novel Parabiosis Technique to Induce Pupation and Examine Species-specificity and Hormonal Dosimetry in Non-Congeneric Chimeric Lepidopteran (Insecta) Larvae

  Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, OR
Totonchy, Mariam Basma (17)
A Comparison of Volcanic Activity and Surface Changes to Monitor Tidal Heating on the Jovian Moon Io, 1996-2000

  Smithtown High School, Smithtown, NY
Tow, Clara Yentin (17)
Synthesis and Application of Novel Giant Polyoxomolybdate-based Molecules

  Hamilton Southeastern High School, Fishers, IN
Tu, Feng (18)
Signaling Pathways for Neuronal Apoptosis

  Dunbar High School, Fort Worth, TX
Vasan, Arjun (18)
Pyruvate as a Possible Therapy for Glaucoma

  Centennial High School, Ellicott City, MD
Vaswani, Reena Surender (16)
Development of a Computerized Test to Evaluate Dynamic Ocular Torsion

  Lawrence High School, Cedarhurst, NY
Vaughn, Casey Ann (16)
Deaf, Not Dumb: Dispelling the Myth of the Apparent Mathematics Deficit Among Deaf Students

  Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn, NY
Vaz, Amiya Rebecca (17)
The Influence of Demographic and Scholastic Factors on the Formation of Interracial Friendships Among Adolescents

  Manhasset High School, Manhasset, NY
Vinberg, Alexander Daniel (17)
The Chemical Pathways of Extramedullary Hematopoiesis in Myelofibrosis

  Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn, NY
Vinogradov, Ilya (17)
Incyclic Polygons

  Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, Plainview, NY
Virdi, Mandeep Kaur (16)
The Synthesis of a Taxoid Porphyrin Conjugate for Selective Drug Delivery

  Classen School of Advanced Studies, Oklahoma City, OK
Vuong, Amyie (17)
Autoimmunity and Cancer

  Suffern High School, Suffern, NY
Wadgaonkar, Ajay Dilip (17)
Effects of Intra- and Extracellular Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor on Bovine Pulmonary Artery Endothelial Cell Migration

  Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD
Wakeman-Linn, Joseph Harvey (17)
An Experimental Comparison of Visual-Motor Map Development Between Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder and Children Who Are Developing Typically

  Roslyn High School, Roslyn Heights, NY
Waldman, Sarah Elyse (17)
The Effect of Stereotype Threat on High School Girls' Performance on a Math Test

  Texas Academy of Mathematics & Science, Denton, TX
Wang, Cynthia X. (18)
Transcriptional Regulation of CC Chemokine Receptor 5, a Coreceptor for HIV-1 Entry

  St. Francis Preparatory School, Fresh Meadows, NY
Wang, Erwin Christian (17)
The Effect of Chip Gene Expression on the Androgen Receptor at Constant and Varying Androgen Levels in Prostate Cancer Cells

  Ridgewood High School, Ridgewood, NJ
Wang, Huan (17)
Fish Oil Diet Restores the Control of Myocardial Oxygen Consumption by Endothelial Nitric Oxide in Aging Rats

  Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Wang, Pei (18)
To See Is to Believe: Visualization of Memory-associated Synaptic Remodeling in Aplysia

  Spring Valley High School, Columbia, SC
Warshauer-Baker, Gabriel (17)
The Effects of Different Wavelengths of Light on the Photo-induced Transformation of Silver Nanoparticle Shape

  Roslyn High School, Roslyn Heights, NY
Wilner, Melissa Morgan (17)
Sexual Solicitation of Adolescent Students via the Internet: Who Is Targeted, and How DoThey Respond?

  Great Neck South High School, Great Neck, NY
Wissner-Gross, Zachary Daniel (17)
Discovery of Low-current Second-spike Winners in Models of Neuron Pairs

  Francis Lewis High School, Fresh Meadows, NY
Yang, Sun Ling (17)
Reconstructing Paleoenvironmental Conditions Using Trace Element Geochemistry

  Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA
Yang, Yibo (17)
Different Caspases Mediate Age-related Apoptosis in Neurons Compared with Astrocytes

  Hunter College High School, New York, NY
Yau, Emily (17)
A Novel Repressor of Estrogen Receptor Activity: ERR-10

  Byram Hills High School, Armonk, NY
Yee, Alison Kimberly (17)
Apoptosis of Protozoan Oyster Pathogen (Perkinsus marinus) in vivo and in vitro

  Texas Academy of Mathematics & Science, Denton, TX
Yih, Jessica Mae (15)
Swelling and Mechanical Behavior of poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)/Na-montmorillonite Layered Silicates Composite Gels

  Pittsford Mendon High School, Pittsford, NY
Yuan, Joy (17)
Noncollinear Phase Matching in Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification

  Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, NY
Zaliznyak, Alexei (17)
The Interplay of Clustering and Randomness: Virus Propagation on Scale-free Networks

  Dunbar High School, Fort Worth, TX
Zaman, Sayed Ashique (17)
Chaos in Elastic and Pass-through Cases for the Three-particle One-dimensionalSelf-gravitating System

  Oak Ridge High School, Conroe, TX
Zeglin, Scott Bailey (18)
A Biological Treatment of Vibrio vulnificus in Ballast Water

  Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA
Zhang, Yan (16)
A Quantum Model of Information Transmission and Compensation

  The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY
Zhang, Yi-Chen (17)
Sub-lethal Exposure of German Cockroaches to Pesticides Contributes to Increased Expressionof Bla g 2, a Cockroach Allergen Associated with Inner City Asthma

  Upper Arlington High School, Upper Arlington, OH
Zou, James Y. (17)
Configuration Space of Graphs

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